Horticultural implement.



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HORTIGULTURAL IMPLEMENT.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 13, 1911.

1,01 1,947, I Patented'Dec. 19, 1911.

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NITED STATES m it may concern:

\ own that I, IRVING GREGORY, a of the United States, residing at the hip of Sparta, in the county of Kent te of Michigan, have invented new ll Improvements in Horticultural ents, of which the following is a ation.

esent invention relates to horticullements, and its object is to proelil an implement variously improved pable of certain adjustments and ions. This object is attained by, and

, plement hereinafter described, and ted by the accompanying drawings,

1 is a top plan view of my hortimplement; Fig. 2 is an enlarged iew of parts of the same sectioned on -Z of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is an end.

he implement.

l" ank portions 1 of a pair of gardenas the hoes 2, are pivotally con- (one on either side) to the body porhead 3, which is provided with a 1 handle portion, shown partly way at 4:. The body portion 3 has dinal slot 5 therethrough, in which d to travel a binding screw bolt 6 c finger nut 7 and opposite bolt head oss-bar, comprising two parallel and ting members 9 and 10, may be by the finger nut in a desired posihe body portion; that is, the cross be moved toward or from the exof the body portion within the limits slot, and may also be turned on the olt as an axis, and in any such posibe clamped by the finger nut. The portions 1 at their extremities are t 11 to this cross-bar, and near their re pivoted at 12 to the links 13, inks are pivoted at 14 to the body 3 near its extremity. The distance li k from the links pivot 12 on the tion 1 to the projected longitudir line of the slot is not the same distance on the cross-bar from the Lrs pivot 11 on said shank portion to er line (but is greater in the conshown), so that, as the cross-bar c longitudinally the body 3, the hoes brought nearer together or farther n this way the hoes may be adjustat the implement may be used to Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 13, 1911.

cation finds a preferable embodiment I PATENT OFFICE.

J lRVING GREGORY, OF SPARTA TOWNSHIP, KENT COUNTY, MICHIGAN.

I-IORTIGULTURAL IMPLEMENT.

Patented Dec. 19, 1911.

Serial No. 608,357.

cultivate both sides of a row of plants simultaneously: and in order that the operator may stand on one side the row and readily so use this implement, the cross-bar may be turned to an acute angle with said center line of the slot, which action will incline one hoe farther from the side of the handle than the other. A portion 15 of the screw-bolts shank is squared in the member 10 to prevent turning, and a loose sleeve 16 within the slot and surrounding the screw-bolt may be provided as shown.

It will be seen that not only the ordinary cutting edges 16 of the hoes may be utilized in cultivation, but also the sides 17 of each, which form with the edges 16 an acute angle;

and in addition the rounded top portions 18- afford a desirable shape for the cultivating edge of such an implement.

It will be understood that other cultivating tools, as rakes, etc., may be used in my implement, instead of the hoes shown.

Not confining myself to the details of construction shown and described, I claim:

1. In an implement of the character described, a pair of cultivating tools provided with shank portions, a body portion having a handle, a cross-bar pivoted to the shank portions and adapted to be moved longitudinally of the body portion and to-be turned to a position inclined thereto, a clamp to secure the cross-bar in a desired position on the body portion, and links pivoted to the body portion and to the shank portions respectively, the distance on the cross-bar be- .tween the pivotal connection of the cross-bar with the shank portion and the line of the cross-bars movement on the body portion being different from the distance on the link between the pivotal connection of the link with said shank and said line.

2. In an implement of the character de scribed, a handle portion, and a pair of hoe blades held on the handle portion in adjustable relation to each other, said hoes having a cultivating edge 16 on one side, on the opposite side a combined double curved cultivating edge 18, and on the two other sides opposite each other, cultivating edges 17 forming respectively an acute angle with the edge 16.

3. In an implement of the character described, a pair of cultivating tools provided with shank port-ions, a body portion having a longitudinal slot therethrough and a handle, a cross-bar pivoted to the shank portions and pivotally connected to the body portion by a screw bolt adapted to travel in the slot, a nut on the screw-bolt adapted to clamp the cross-bar in an adjusted position on the body portion, and links pivoted to the body portion and to the shank portions respectively, the distance on the cross-bar between the pivotal connection of the crossbar with the shank portion and the longitudinal center line of the slot being different from the distance on the link between the pivotal connection of the link with said shank and said line.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing wit- 15 nesses.

IRVING GREGORY. WVitnesses:

HARRY F. JOHNSON, MARY SOHULTE.

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